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Marine Connectivity Database

Created 16/10/2025

Updated 16/10/2025

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Population connectivity research involves investigating the presence, strength and characteristics of spatial and temporal relationships between populations. These data can be used in many different ways: to identify source-sink relationships between populations; to detect critical pathways or keystone habitats; to find natural clusters or biogeographic regions; or to investigate the processes underlying population genetic structure, among others. This information can be of significant value for managers and decision-makers when designing reserve networks, evaluating the potential spread of invasive species. This database represents the first publicly-available collection of national/continental-scale marine connectivity data.

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Title Marine Connectivity Database
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/b98e3a29-50c8-4e99-825c-4606f6fb6ff8
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 20/04/2018
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        100.0,
        -50.0
      ],
      [
        170.0,
        -50.0
      ],
      [
        170.0,
        -5.0
      ],
      [
        100.0,
        -5.0
      ],
      [
        100.0,
        -50.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Geoscience Australia

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Marine Connectivity Database". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/marine-connectivity-database1